Life in the Fast Lane (@nogc blog post)

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 06/20/2017 09:47 AM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 15:24:06 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>
>>
>> I wasn't skilled enough to make a generic version of this trough. And
>> I do not know what happens if @nogc function ends up calling gc.
>
> This seems like it only would work if you know that there wouldn't be
> any allocations. I don't really know though.
>
> Below is a little more generic:
>
> template gc78f(alias f)
> {
>     void gc78f(T...)(T what) @nogc
>     {
>         import std.stdio;
>         alias fType = void function(T) @nogc;
>         (cast(fType)&f!T)(what);
>     }
> }
>
> void main() @nogc
> {
>     import std.stdio;
>     string x = "hello world!";
>     gc78f!(writeln)(x);
> }

And there is also assumeNoGC() which has been discussed before. (The 
scary thing is, although it happened just five months ago I don't 
remember taking part in it. :( )

   http://forum.dlang.org/post/oat6lu$n94$1@digitalmars.com

Ali